Introduction
In criminal law evidence, a confession is a statement by a suspect in crime that incriminates that person. According to Roesch, Zapf & Hart (2009), in more than 25 percent DNA exoneration cases, innocent defendants made incriminating statements, pled guilty or delivered outright confessions. This point out those confessions does not always come out of actual guilt or internal knowledge, but sometimes a product of external factors. Innocent people confess because of a variety of factors, including coercion, duress, diminished capacity, mental impairment, fear of violence, ignorance of the law, threat of harsh sentence, and the actual infliction of harm. The aim of this ...
